A piece of Vermont marble being used in the new United Nations headquarters in Hew York was today turned over by U.S. representative to the U.N. Warren Austin to Mrs. Haim Yassky, widow of the late Hadassah medical director in Israel, at a ceremony at the Israeli consulate here marking the opening of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem.
The marble will be placed in the cornerstone of the main medical school building which will be erected on Mt. Scopus as soon as conditions permit. The school will be the first of its kind in Israel.
Austin hailed the opening of the medical school as a step toward peace and a force for raising the health level of all peoples in the east Mediterranean area. Pointing out that the ceremony follows close on the heels of the admission of Israel to the U.N. the American Ambassador declared that both the opening of the school and the construction of U.N. headquarters are great acts of faith. Arthur Lourie, Israeli consul general in this city, and Dr. H. Van Zile Hyde, senior American rep representative to the World Health Organization, also spoke at the ceremony.
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